In this ScreenTalk interview Preston talks about:

• how she started in film thanks to a job as an art therapist in an English asylum, and the elopement of a friend
• her longtime interest in “the stories that hold secrets, the things that you’re not allowed to talk about”
• working with producer Robin Laing, and discovering that when they went to meetings people kept looking nervously toward the door
• the challenges of pitching “comedy thriller ghost story” Mr Wrong
• being won over by Graeme Tetley’s script for comedy of manners Ruby and Rata
• making mini-series Bread and Roses, based on the life of the late activist/politician Sonja Davies
• the low number of New Zealand women directing film, then and now

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence

Credits: Direction and Interview – Ian Pryor.  Camera and Editing – Alex Backhouse